Well, it looks as if the race for the top of the Big 10 is all in disarray now.

I dunno who's going to end up on top, but Michigan State, if they'd won today, they probably would've locked up the champion of the western division, given that all their remaining games are expected to be easy, but Michigan State didn't win today; Nebraska did.

Unlike Michigan State, all of Nebraska's remaining games are expected to be tough ones.....but it is a little bit closer--although still far far from actually happening--to a Nebraska-Ohio State championship game.

Maybe about 3-in-100, but that's better odds than 1-in-100.

We'll see.

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It sort of reminds me of a Nebraska-Minnesota game during the mid-1980s, which Nebraska won, 84-13.

There was a lot of criticism about Nebraska "running up the score," but in actual fact, halfway through the first quarter, then-coach Tom Osborne was already sending in second-stringers, and by the fourth quarter, he was playing the water-boys and the kids who hold the jugs of Gatorade.

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There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site

It doesn't mean much, sir--it's still an "away" game for Georgia, and a "home" game for Florida.

It's inside the state of Florida, where the natives are likely to support the team from their own state.

The businesses of Florida, not Georgia, profit greatly from money fans of Georgia spend there; the restaurants, the bars, the gasoline stations, the hotels and motels, the tourist traps.

The state of Florida, not Georgia, collects oodles of sales-tax revenue from fans of Georgia, not to mention all the cigarettes fans from Georgia buy in Florida, paying the Florida tobacco tax; ditto for gasoline, liquor, and dining-out/lodging excise taxes too, that go to Tallahassee rather than Atlanta.

It looks to me like both businesses and the state government of Georgia get the short end of the stick.

In fact, they don't even get the end of a stick.

Ditto for the Oklahoma-Texas football game, where Texas profits even if they lose on the football field, and Oklahoma loses even when they win on the football field.

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Frank, with respect, you don't know too much about Florida geography. The panhandle, and the rest of North Florida, might as well be South Georgia. If there are fans of a Florida team in Jacksonville, a lot of'em are Seminoles, but the city, itself, is full of transplants.

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There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site

Frank, with respect, you don't know too much about Florida geography. The panhandle, and the rest of North Florida, might as well be South Georgia. If there are fans of a Florida team in Jacksonville, a lot of'em are Seminoles, but the city, itself, is full of transplants.

Well now, sir, I'm aware that Florida has several different regional cultures, and that those in the extreme northern part, and those in the panhandle, are different from the tax refugee transplants further south who are doing their best to ruin Florida.

Probably those up there have a close affinity with Georgia.

But I'm emphasizing more of the economic impact, which favors Florida wholly and Georgia not a cent, what with the game every year being held in Florida.

It's the same halfway across the country, where Texas harvests Oklahoma money, but don't have to spend any money themselves in Oklahoma. The economic impact.

If I were a taxpayer in Georgia, I'd be unhappy about the situation, and demand that it be a home-and-away schedule, so that half the time Florida has to enrich Georgia, rather than Georgia having to enrich Florida every single year. It's only fair.

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